Trump appears to be winning the government shutdown narrative as Democrats face setbacks and more federal layoffs occur, while GOP redistricting boosts Republican prospects for 2026. Legal troubles mount for Democratic figures like Letitia James, and conservative influence grows in states like California. Major deportation raids and crimes by undocumented immigrants dominate immigration news. Cultural shifts include rising audiobook sales and collapsing teen support for gender ideology. Economically, JPMorgan pledges $1.5 trillion to U.S. industry, Stellantis boosts production, and Fed rate cuts may be near. Internationally, Israel’s prisoner releases spark violence in Gaza, Europe moves to ban burkas, and Trump reengages Xi after new tariffs. In entertainment, MTV ends its music era, Mel Gibson films “Resurrection of the Christ,” and John Candy’s legacy is revived in a new documentary. NBC faces layoffs, and scientists announce the first antidote for carbon dioxide poisoning.
1) You know me, I don't believe in polls, but . . . "Polls show" Trump is winning the gubment shutdown PR battle. With the SpewMore shutdown failing, SpewMore now wants DemoKKKrats to take "forceful" action against President Trump. Really, SpewMore? Two assassination attempts weren't "forceful" enough for ya? DemoKKKrats are fuming that Trump is using unspent money to pay troops, and Trump said one unnamed billionaire offered to pay the troops for the month ($6.6 billion !). Well, two weeks into the SpewMore Shutdown, and eight votes later, the DemoKKKrats still have the gubment shut down. Fine with me. Trump terminated 400 HUD employees from the division that tried to abolish suburbs.
2) You also know how I hate these kind of stories ("poised to," "looking to," "may") but I think this is the case that race based districting is going to be struck down by the Supes. Even without that NC has voted to redraw its map, adding one more GOP seat. That would, by my calculations, bring the GOP "safe" total for 2026 to 219 (TX 5, MO 1, IN 1, OH 2, FL 2, now NC 1 minus CA 5). Realize, FL could add 3, TX 6, OH 3, and DemoKKKrats may have trouble wining all 5 CA seats, so this margin can grow; and there are a half dozen "Tossup states" so that margin can grow further. And KS just announced it will redistrict, possibly adding another seat to 219 without a single tossup. I think the DemoKKKrats are screwed. Hence you are starting to see stories such as these: "the Collapse of the DemoKKKrat Party and its Deep State Keepers," or Red State which today says what I've told you since November, namely, the DemoKKKrats ain't gonna win back the House.
3) Edward Ring notes that the "Up/Down Coalition" in Kollyfornia (i.e., Silicon Valley tech billionaires and the poor urban inner city residents) are shifting to red, and Kollyfornia may soon be competitive.
4) "Rising Eagle" on X recreated a more appropriate TIme cover:
5) So Letitia ("Jesse") James, who now is indicted for mortgage fraud . . . turns out she has been harboring a criminal in that abode who has a rap sheet longer than the Dallas Cowboys no-Super-Bowl-appearances list.
6) Big deal. The Amazing Zohran accepted over $13,000 in foreign money for his campaign. No one cares. His idiotic supporters don't even know what that implies, and MAGA already knows he's a reptilian retrosprocket.
7) The Punisher SecWar Pete Hegseth told the Hoax News media to sign an anti-leak pledge or GTFO, so many are leaving. This is great. No more leaks on war plans.
8) Trump has threatened to pull the World Cup games out of Boston if there are "unsafe conditions," i.e., if the moronic Boston Mayor Wu (Who?) doesn't get on board with ICE.
9) DOGE reports $210 billion in taxpayer savings so far.
10) It's a poll, so . . . but in NJ, Republican Jack Ciatterelli has pulled into a tie, and among those certain to vote, leads by 4.
11) Fitting. Trump awarded the Medal of Freedom posthumously to Charlie Kirk.
12) Miami-Dade College gifted land for the Trump Presidential Library, but now a judge has put that transfer on hold. These hopeless, smelly, crotch-munching judges.
13) Remember how we heard that a "right winger" burned down Gov. Josh Shapiro's home? Yeah, not so much. Cody Ballmer pled guilty to charges of arson, burglary, assault, everything but staging the attack at Sand Creek. Oh, why did he do it you ask? Because Shapiro was supporting Israel's war in Gaza. Get it? A total Pale/Hamas Murder Pirate skincrawler.
14) A DemoKKKrat donor faces embezzlement charges for a grant from Witless Protection's administration. (That's Gretchen Witmer).
15) Wow. Over 1,500 illegal criminal invaders were rounded up in "Let's Go Brandon's" Benghazi-by-the-Lake (Chicago). What, he and Porky Pritzker couldn't stop it?
16) In Kollyfornia, a seven-time deported illegal criminal invader killed six people in a crash. He should stand trial for murder and be given the needle.
17) Audiobook sales have started to climb again. They were stagnant for about 10 years.
18) The NEA sent to its 3 million members on "Indigenous People's Day" a map of the world without Israel. This is a terrorist organization.
19) Two boys trying to compete in UT sports as girls lost their bid to overturn the UT law.
20) A federal judge allowed a case to "save women's sports" against transoids to proceed.
21) All it took was for a few adults to say, "Tranoidism is a sickness. It is not hip. It is not cool. It's destructive." And lo an behold, teens support for transoidism collapses.
22) So now JPMorgan is America First? The bank announced a massive new$1.5 trillion in industrial investments in key national security areas.
23) U.S. CEOs toured Chinese plants and were terrified of the speed and efficiency. One Ford exec canceled plans to build electric powertrains there, admitting we are in an economic war.
24) Stellantis will increase its U.S. vehicle production by 50%.
25) Jerome (Cozy) Powell signaled that Fed rate cuts may be coming.
26) David Blackmon, the Rush Limbaugh of Energy, notes that Laura Swett will become a commissioner on the Federal Energy Resource Council (FERC) replacing a DemoKKKrat. Good news. He also notes that virtue signaling about green must end now.
27) Good. H1B visa holders have disappeared from the housing market.
28) BHP is looking at reopening copper mines in the U.S. after Trump's policy shifts in favor of domestic mining. Jeff Bezos says we'll have gigawatt data centers in space in 20 years. Ok. Where ya gonna get the water? Meanwhile, candidates for both parties are blaming data centers for high electric bills. Maybe predictably, Saudi Arabia says fossil fuels will energize AI.
29) That didn't take long: the Hamas Murder Pirates began executing those in Gaza thought to be "collaborators" with Israel. Such nice, upstanding scrotumbuckets.
30) First Italy, now Sweden seeks to ban the burka., Probably a little too late.
31) Ah, the good old days when our spies were all working for the Russkies. Now it's the ChiComs with another arrested for having secret docs in meetings with Chinese.
32) I know this is part of the "Peace Deal," but Israel will regret this: Israel is releasing over 1900 Pale/Gaza prisoners.
33) After Trump announced massive new tariffs on Chy-na over their crackdown on releasing rare earth minerals, Xi got on the phone and now the meeting with Trump is back on. Likewise, all of a sudden India wants to talk again.
34) The pro-terrorist "One Battle After Another" movie is another flop after another, losing money.
35) After Glenn Beck did a show on the money networks supporting fascist so-called antifa, the FBI knocked on his door and said, "What else can you tell us? We want these guys."
36) Mel Gibson's new "Resurrection of the Christ" has two new actors, Jaakko Ohtonen for Jesus and Mariela Garriga as Mary.
37) MTV is shutting down the last of its all music channels in Britain after 44 years, marking its exit from a genre it once owned. Who can forget the "Thriller" video, or Duran Duran's "The Reflex," or David Lee Roth singing "California Girls?"
38) Colin Hanks' documentary "I Like Me" on Prime about John Candy (died 1994) is solid, and made extremely touching by the scenes from Candy himself. Particularly moving was Steve Martin reminiscing about the hotel bedroom scene from "Planes, Trains, and Automobiles" where he had to really insult and demean Candy's "Del Griffith" character. You saw the hurt in Candy's eyes. I miss him. If I could bring back five entertainers in their prime it would be Rush Limbaugh, John Candy, Michael Jackson, Elvis Presley, and Sam Kineson.
39) Significant layoffs underway at NBC (Nothing But Communists) News.
40) The first antidote for carbon dioxide poisoning is now available.
